When Wordsworth wrote in 1802, 'Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours', he was acknowledging that the bond between humanity and the natural world was already effectively severed.  At the start of 21st century Western society’s  preference for the virtual worlds offered by technology to anything that nature can offer becomes every day more evident.  So is humanity’s relationship with nature in terminal decline? Dalziel + Scullion, in collaboration with Scottish Natural Heritage, have invited key thinkers in the field of contemporary ecology to address this subject matter. This website provides information on the event and the project as a whole.